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Taylor Guitars: Kurt Listug and Bob Taylor. From $3,700 Shop to Global Icon
- ▶ 0:16 Bob Taylor Somewhere around six years, maybe it was five, I sat down with Kurt and Steve, and I said, we have a bad habit of not paying ourselves.
- ▶ 10:53 Kurt Listug With, uh, my friend that I'd grown up with, and, and Bob was interested too, and we each put together a, a little plan, and then, uh, I talked, I spoke with my dad and said, hey, would you, would you and mom consider loaning me the money… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:23 Guy Raz But you could have called it Lista Guitars, or your other partner, Schemer, or, but why, I mean, Bob was the guitar maker, so now, of course, it makes sense. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:02 Kurt Listug Um, Steve felt a little differently about it, and that's, that's one of the, ah, disagreements we had.
- ▶ 28:55 Bob Taylor Yeah, and the other way, I thought, is somewhere around six years, maybe it was five, I sat down with Kurt and Steve, and I said, we have a bad habit of not paying ourselves.
- ▶ 30:17 Guy Raz So it's 1979, five years into the business, and Kurt, Bob, and the partner Steve have ended their relationship with their one distributor, and they have to lay off the small group of guitar makers that were working for them. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:50 Guy Raz All right, so about nine years into the business, this is in 1983, I guess you, the two of you offer and then agree to buy Steve, your third partner, out. 13 times in the scene